Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Difference between revisions

 

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* Episode 22 of Azumanga Daioh does this is the English Dub. In the Japanese version, it's just [[Gratuitous English]].

* Leeron in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' frequently does this after the [[Time Skip]], with "short versions" inevitably following after he loses his audience.

** Yuki will often provide one or two syllable answers to rather important questions, be prompted (usually by Kyon) into giving longer answers, and the longer answers end up in this incomparable form.

* Matsuki from ''[[Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou]]'' is prone to this with regards to school work.

 

== Occidental sequential graphic novels (Comic Books) ==

{{quote|'''V:''' Voilà ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [[Overly Long Gag|Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose]], so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

'''Evey Hammond:''' ... Are you like a crazy person? }}

* In ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'', the two heroes are getting pummeled by an unusually verbose Mook's large companion, leading [[Deadpan Snarker|Bruce Willis's character]] to exclaim, "Shit, we're being beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!"

* Can't forget ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]''. Dr. Calvin is very much like this in the beginning, though she sort of thaws out.

** He talks that way [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/165/ in the book], too.

{{quote|'''Bi-coloured Python Rock Snake:''' Rash and inexperienced traveler, we will now seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the armor-plated upper deck ''(and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile)'' will permanently vitiate your future career.}}

* Christopher Paolini apparently feels the need to use a thesaurus at all times with the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', sparking copious mixed opinions from readers. Some find his writing captivating and interesting, while others basically write it off as a load of crap. Either way, you can't argue that he follows this trope to the letter, and younger readers may want to keep a dictionary open while traversing his prose.

* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'', Mr. Croup seems practically incapable of pronouncing any ''bon mot'' of less than polysyllabic length, much to the confusion of Mr. Vandemar. At one point he describes himself and Mr. Vandemar as having "funny clothes and convoluted circumlocutions", to which Mr Vandemar responds indignantly "I haven't got a circumlo..." Mr. Croup explains that the word means "a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity."

* The Ultimate Warrior was also famous for this, interspersing feral snarling, grunting, and shouting with long, rambling promos peppered with million-dollar words used almost-correctly. In his later years, he even started throwing in words he made up out of whole cloth, apparently believing his character motivations to be too complex to explain in the English language as it stands. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA3bUTFNtY4 Case in point...]

* Bob Backlund's mid-'90s comeback [[Heel Turn]] was characterized by his speaking with words from the unabridged dictionary; notably, calling the fans "plebians".

* Brian Pillman used to engage in a bit of this. For example, un the promo where Chris Benoit was drafted into the Horsemen, Pillman ranted about how Sting "regaled [his] obsequious lapdogs with [his] reprehensible act."

* Gorilla Monsoon was fond of using obscure medical terminology in his play-by-play. A shot to the back of the head would be described as hitting "the external occipital protuberance," while a chair-shot to the back would be said to have damaged "the subscapularis area."

 

 

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